Here and Now and Sounding Good! | ||||
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Released | 1966 | |||
Recorded | 23 and 25 September 1966 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Mercury Records 20093 MCL [1] | |||
Dick Morrissey chronology | ||||
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Here and Now and Sounding Good!, released in 1966, was the sixth Dick Morrissey Quartet recording. The tracks included were a tribute to Dick Morrissey's friends and fellow British jazz musicians.
It was re-released as a CD in 2007. [2]
Edward Brian "Tubby" Hayes was an English jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known for his virtuosic musicianship on tenor saxophone and for performing in jazz groups with fellow sax player Ronnie Scott and trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar. He is widely considered to be one of the finest jazz saxophonists to have emerged from Britain.
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959.
Richard Edwin Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute.
Philip William Seamen was an English jazz drummer.
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Harry Percy South was an English jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, who moved into work for film and television.
Have You Heard? is the second Dick Morrissey Quartet album. It was recorded July/August 1963 and released on Doug Dobell's 77 Records label.
Storm Warning! is the fourth Dick Morrissey Quartet album. It was recorded live at The Bull's Head, London, on 22 and 29 November 1965. It was reissued around 1996 by HomeGrown Records.
There and Back is a CD released in 1997 which contains previously unissued live recordings by the Dick Morrissey Quartet. The five tracks were performed over two nights, with two different line-ups of the quartet, at Ronnie Scott's in London in 1964/1965. The liner notes were written by Derek Everett and Les Tomkins, with photographs by David Redfern.
Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's is the fifth Dick Morrissey Quartet recording. It comprises a jam session with Sonny Stitt recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London in 1965. It has also been released on the same label with the title Sonny's Blues.
John William Frank Critchinson also known as "Critch", was an English jazz pianist.
William James "Bill" Eyden was an English jazz drummer.
The Bull's Head, also known as "The Bull", is a pub in Barnes situated within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It hosts live music in an attached music room that has a capacity for 80 people.
Sound Venture is a jazz album recorded by Georgie Fame and the Harry South Big Band in 1966. Featuring many of Britain's top jazz musicians, and arranged by big band arranger Harry South, it marked a departure from Fame's R&B hits with the Blue Flames. The record peaked at number 9 on the national albums chart in the UK.
Alan Branscombe was an English jazz pianist, vibraphonist, and alto saxophonist.
Philip "Phil" Francis Bates is an English jazz double bassist.
Ian Wilfred Hamer was a British jazz trumpeter.
Raymond Kenneth Warleigh was an Australian alto saxophonist and flautist.
Simon Richard Spillett is a jazz tenor saxophonist. He has won the BBC Jazz Awards Rising Star (2007), Jazz Journal's Critics' Choice album of the Year (2009), the British Jazz Awards Top Tenor Saxophonist (2011), and Services to British Jazz award (2016).
Progressive Records is an American jazz record company and label owned by the Jazzology group. It produces reissues and compilations of musicians such as Sonny Stitt, Eddie Barefield, George Masso, and Eddie Miller.